The Agile Research Network (The Open University and University of Central Lancs.) conducted a series of studies into how User Experience Design works in software projects. They spent some time at LShift observing how projects run and how designers and programmers work together.

The result of this study was a Whitepaper (which is available on the DSDM website), but now some of the material from that has been developed into a DSDM Pocketbook. The guidance in this book is based on real experience and offers a useful perspective on how to get the best out of your UX and Programming teams.

These DSDM Pocketbooks offer quick dives into a particular project management area, worth getting hold of, not least because we helped produce it

GA4GH seeks to create interoperable approaches to catalyse projects that will help unlock the great potential of genomic data.

LShift has already delivered tech into the alliance’s Data Working Group whose remit concentrates on “representation, storage, and analysis of genomic data, including working with academic and industry leaders to develop approaches that facilitate interoperability.” Our initial work on authentication and security features facilitates the build out of reference servers for collaborators globally. Given the domain, we’re looking forward to working through scalability and performance features to support both small and large research teams and to working with the prestigious line up of partner organisations.

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/lshift-joins-ga4gh/feed/0SimpleGifts say thankshttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/simplegifts-say-thanks/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/simplegifts-say-thanks/#commentsWed, 04 Feb 2015 11:36:02 +0000http://www.lshift.net/?p=5148LShift was very pleased to receive this as a result of a donation we made to SimpleGifts. The donation will be used to buy video equipment that will help them promote their work of building community links in London’s Tower Hamlets. SimpleGifts run multiple day and after-school programs and lunch clubs for seniors.
]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/simplegifts-say-thanks/feed/0Je suis ein Berlinerhttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/je-suis-ein-berliner/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/je-suis-ein-berliner/#commentsThu, 15 Jan 2015 13:10:44 +0000http://www.lshift.net/?p=5110Today sees the creation of the LShift office in Berlin, an extension of the LShift operation in London, where LShift have been developing ground breaking software for 14 years.

LShift Services GmbH will be providing software development and consulting services to companies in Germany and the rest of mainland Europe.

LShift Services (Berlin) is headed up by John Newby a long-standing member of LShift, having recently rejoined the company after a few years involvement in a start-up business, which was eventually sold to Google.

John Newby, MD of the German company said: ““LShift UK was being founded as Shoreditch became the UK’s startup centre, so it’s particularly exciting to be in Berlin, which is becoming Europe’s startup capital. We think that LShift’s model of software development will be as successful for German companies as it has been for our customers in the UK.””

Mike Rowlands, MD of the London head office said: “We’re delighted to have John back and spearheading this new initiative for us. This is a major step forward for LShift and we hope to be working with some exciting new companies.”

Editors notes:
LShift provides software development services to clients in all industries and jurisdictions, across a very wide range of technologies. LShift was set up in the year 2000 to provide a haven for great developers, to allow them to produce great software and at the same to produce great work for clients. LShift is best known in the software industry for being the original developers of RabbitMQ the enterprise messaging system, subsequently sold to VMware.

Press enquiries: +44 20 7729 7060

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/je-suis-ein-berliner/feed/0CAN launchedhttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/can-launched/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/can-launched/#commentsMon, 11 Aug 2014 11:28:29 +0000http://lshiftb.wpengine.com/?p=4761LShift have written a software platform for The Cartesius Advisory Network (CAN), a new international advisory business that launched this week.

The platform enables the CAN advisers to operate “anytime, anywhere, anyhow”.

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/can-launched/feed/0Putting RabbitMQ in the cloudhttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/putting-rabbitmq-in-the-cloud/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/putting-rabbitmq-in-the-cloud/#commentsWed, 14 May 2014 19:18:49 +0000http://46.252.199.133/?p=2814Bigwig is now available on Heroku.

It’s been a big week for Bigwig! We’re now live on Heroku with plans ranging from a no-cost testing tier through to production-ready services. The Bigwig add-on is powered by the open source RabbitMQ broker and comes with a slew of advantages for developers and organisations:

Scale your applications. Using a message broker is a great way to decouple your applications to help them scale, to cope with peaks of activity, or as a central integration technology.

Open standards, open source. Bigwig is powered by the open source RabbitMQ broker. It is it is the leading implementation of AMQP, the open standard for business messaging.

RabbitMQ Integrate almost anything, anywhere. RabbitMQ was built from the ground up to interoperate with other technologies: it supports numerous platforms allowing you to connect a wide variety of applications. RabbitMQ Bigwig puts this flexibility in the cloud, connecting applications anywhere on the Internet.

Putting developers in control. RabbitMQ allows you to implement a huge variety of messaging patterns, and with the AMQP
model, it is you who controls the broker.

Quick and easy. Getting started with Bigwig takes minutes, and there are guides to getting started with
RabbitMQ for many platforms.

If you would like our help setting up or optimising RabbitMQ on Bigwig we’d be delighted to help.

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/putting-rabbitmq-in-the-cloud/feed/0Typesetr at the Frankfurt Book Fairhttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/typesetr-at-the-frankfurt-book-fair/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/typesetr-at-the-frankfurt-book-fair/#commentsMon, 14 Apr 2014 12:45:17 +0000http://www.lshift.net/?p=2902LShift and its partners from the Leuphana Inkubator (University of Hamburg) presented Typesetr(™) to a packed session at this year’s Frankfurt Bookfair during the “The Future of Higher Education and Academic Publishing” seminar.

Typesetr had just undergone a complete UI refresh and integration with the Zotero citation and bibliography service before the show and so attracted a great deal of interest. Typesetr is going to be used as the semantic editing and document transform platform for the EU’s principal research initiative for Open Access publishing infrastructure over the next three years.

The academic version of Typesetr shown to conference delegates enables students, researchers and academic departments to collaboratively create, edit, transform and enrich complex documents whether they be intended for book, journal, monograph or digital distribution formats. An intermediate representation of a highly structured document is maintained such that switching between different output targets doesn’t affect the original’s structure or metadata or compromise the design and specification of the desired output format.

Along with Zotero integration, support for some of the world’s leading Open Access academic publishers is next up for Typesetr’s development road map. If you’d like more information, or to join the Typesetr closed beta program then contact us

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/typesetr-at-the-frankfurt-book-fair/feed/0Forces bolsteredhttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/forces-bolstered/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/forces-bolstered/#commentsMon, 31 Mar 2014 09:41:13 +0000http://lshiftb.wpengine.com/?p=4745After an intense drive to recruit over the last year we are proud to welcome a number of new staff. They bring a wealth of experience and talent.

We are equally excited to see the very welcome return of one of the key members of the RabbitMQ development team: David Wragg, who first joined LShift in 2007.

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/forces-bolstered/feed/0Lead Developer and Programme Manager soughthttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/lead-developer-and-programme-manager-sought/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/lead-developer-and-programme-manager-sought/#commentsThu, 03 Oct 2013 19:16:26 +0000http://46.252.199.133/?p=2812For those of you paying attention you will see we are advertising our regular “Lead Developer” position and we’re also now looking to fill a “Programme Manager” position, which is a rare event for us.

At its heart our development model centres the focus of project management around the Lead Developer. We’re always on the hunt for great developers to fill this role. But now as the size and volume of projects ramps up we need more help running our overall PM practise and supporting the main PM activities of our developers. This role is more planning and mentoring than hands-on and could be very interesting for someone who’s got to the stage where they feel they’ve gathered a lot of delivery experience and a good understanding of what makes projects run well and not run badly!

Programme Manager role:

A key enabling role driving LShift’s delivery capability.

LShift provides software development services across a multitude of industries and platforms and has developed a highly effective, if slightly unusual project delivery model in which a Lead Developer takes the primary project management role. This pulls the project management function into the centre of focus of everyday operations for developers and results in better quality and more efficient projects.

LShift is looking for a creative individual with experience of delivering successful projects using various methodologies, particularly agile methodologies, to become part of the management team and be able to provide support and advice to developers producing their projects.

Project Governance

Promoting best practice in processes and communication

Mentoring less experienced staff

Management reporting

Risk management

Support to Lead Devs

Reporting and client comms

Providing escalation point for LShift lead dev and customer

Issue resolution

Increasing client understanding of LShift model and methods

Commercial Management

Product Management

Monitoring performance against contract

Reviewing financial performance

Primary interface with finance team

Resource Management

Managing staff and project utilisation

Input to HR and recruitment management

Forward load analysis

Resource utilisation

Project budgeting

]]>https://www.lshift.net/about/news/lead-developer-and-programme-manager-sought/feed/0LShift presents at Royal Academyhttps://www.lshift.net/about/news/t/
https://www.lshift.net/about/news/t/#commentsMon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000http://t
LShift presented one of its research projects to an audience at the Royal Academy
last month.
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LShift presented one of its research projects to an audience at the Royal Academy last month.

“Typesetr” goes straight to the root of the problem of automating the process of converting raw copy to carefully crafted templates and out to production-ready print PDFs. Ingesting multiple input file types (from Google Docs to Microsoft Word) the system allows users to apply rich templates and add complex metadata for the intended platforms (PDF, e-book, mobi and more).

The RA event was hosted by the Technology Strategy Board and several organisations who had participated in its grant awards (including LShift) presented the results
of their work in the “Increasing the Value of Metadata” stream.

LShift’s Keith Fisher presented and joined a panel Q&A session where several representatives from academic institutions were keen to know more about Typesetr’s applicability to and use within the academic publishing sphere. Let’s just say, “More to follow…”